[Asterisk-Users] Voicemail Password Changes Lost on Asterisk Restart

[Nik Martin]

Chris Shaw wrote:
> Ok I have googled and googled and combed through the wiki for an
> answer to this and have come up empty. What I'm finding is that when
> a user changes their VM password, it is saved somewhere like maybe
> the CSV database or something because when you log in, the new
> password works fine, but it's not saving to voicemail.conf. So new
> passwords are lost when asterisk is restarted and people become
> annoyed...      
> 
> I get the feeling from reading the wikis about VoiceMailMain() that
> you really need to use cdr_<insert your favorite database here> to
> keep passwords on restart but it's not said out right.  
> 
> Is this true? Or can asterisk save to the voicemail.conf and I just
> need to update my CVS? 
> 
>     -Chris
> 


Nah, it's because the file isn't writeable by whover asterisk runs as, I'm
pretty sure.  Works fine running as root on my machine.